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1 Apr 2013, 15:04
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Hello,
Recently I moved to Germany and I am having this annoying problem.........
I heard from a lot of germans that downloading music ilegally here is not actually a good idea, some friends told me they downloaded a couple of full albums and they got 1000 EUR fines..., other people even go further and had to deal with court issues and shit and ofc I dont wanna be paying that or having legal probs.
So I need help here.:
Well I need my music, need new music, need to find a way around it. First I had all my youtube account blocked by a GMA or smth , but that was easily solved with a proxy (using hotspotshield btw) , now my question here is :
Can I -get caught- if I download music using a proxy or vpn ? As for example that one I mention?
I have been reading about this on the internet and its kinda 50/50 , some ppl say ye they bust you anyways , some others say no...so I am not sure what to believe.
If not possible, what do you germans use to legally download music , or listen to music ? I tried Xbox music 1 month free trial and I liked it but eventually my inet speed goes rlly down on my phone so the song will stop every 2 secs to load again...so not an option, is there any service which you can pay a monthly or so subscription and get to "download" the songs to your device, like no inet connection needed?
Any other suggestions are kindly taken !
Thanks
Recently I moved to Germany and I am having this annoying problem.........
I heard from a lot of germans that downloading music ilegally here is not actually a good idea, some friends told me they downloaded a couple of full albums and they got 1000 EUR fines..., other people even go further and had to deal with court issues and shit and ofc I dont wanna be paying that or having legal probs.
So I need help here.:
Well I need my music, need new music, need to find a way around it. First I had all my youtube account blocked by a GMA or smth , but that was easily solved with a proxy (using hotspotshield btw) , now my question here is :
Can I -get caught- if I download music using a proxy or vpn ? As for example that one I mention?
I have been reading about this on the internet and its kinda 50/50 , some ppl say ye they bust you anyways , some others say no...so I am not sure what to believe.
If not possible, what do you germans use to legally download music , or listen to music ? I tried Xbox music 1 month free trial and I liked it but eventually my inet speed goes rlly down on my phone so the song will stop every 2 secs to load again...so not an option, is there any service which you can pay a monthly or so subscription and get to "download" the songs to your device, like no inet connection needed?
Any other suggestions are kindly taken !
Thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dTREZNbljY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu9G7uts8og
or just get a friend who downloads for you :D
But can try spotify? Listen to music with commercial "breaks", it's legal.
ok
Ok.
Get music from torrents, ftp, search for blah blah album mediafire on google/filestube.
As I said, it is not illegal to download music per se (and why on earth would be illegal listening to music?). However, if you want to be save, either download albums/singles that are explicitly said to be free or buy your music.
what? :D
yo jon im mad fucked up atm and ur comment made me lol
get ur head out of his asshole
proxy will normaly not help you at all
VPN will normaly cover you fully
plenty of free sites and ways to listen and download legaly, especialy for "underground" stuff or remixes, there is request "radios" also ofc but spotify is recommended.
I guess you are not very interested in networking so the practicals would probably be something like:
Proxy is often used to bypass blockades of content or sites, often free and simple to setup, poor quality and lagg is a common trait because of the accessibility and massive amount of users supported. Provides one ASL-shield bar. There is even sites that can act as a proxy through your browser.
VPN(paid ones, I wont speak about free) often have a monthly or yearly little fee, very secure, faster and more customizations. They are a bit harder to set up and most often you can only use it on one unit. There has been about a handfull of cases where VPN providers has given out information about users (after court cases I believe), where proxy providers even have to bend to ISP requests.
I will definately try spotify free month trial and see if I like, since many said thats cool.
I also read some funny , if I go on torrents and download a lot of stuff(music and movies) from a random wifi hotspot (example: starbucks) , well they get fined and not me (ofc because the ip is theirs xd) , so I am considering this option too in case I dont like spotify or if I can confirm a VPN would be 100% safe for me to do my normal downloads.
I would pay to download music but ehhh nah I think I have more important stuff to spend my money in and they still cost about 0.99 cent per song, having over 20GB of music I would have to spend a lot.
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